Movers and Makers Staging Ageing
Hello. We’re Grand Gesture, a gang of older dance artists in London, making and performing works about later life. Our mantra is: embrace imperfection, be authentic, and have fun.
Learn more about us in this documentary by pioneering Swedish film-maker Anders Larsson.
Interview by acclaimed filmmaker Anders Larsson where Bruce Currie talks about Grand Gesture's Rite of Autumn.
HAPPY EVER OLDER
‘Happy Ever Older’ is an original musical fairy tale based on the symbolic themes of little-known elder folk tales, which offer guidance on how to transition into a good old age. In our story a queen is condemned for being too old. She is thrown out of her royal life and left to die alone in a dark forest. Can a silver fox, an elder tree and an ageing caterpillar save her? Watch and find out!
“Great fun. And marvellously DIY.
Reminded me of 1980s Derek Jarman.”
Rose Rouse, Founder of Advantages of Age.
We love living
A big hand for our amazing supporters
David Dutfield, composer, musician
Alice Mills, composer
Louise Scapin, production assistant
Lucy Bennett, dance researcher
Patrick Ross Webster, dance artist
Vilma Laryea, photographer
Laura Hinski, photographer
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